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Pre-registration is required ONLY for those events with a fee, and/or limited attendance: the writing workshops and the Saturday Dinner Banquet. * Print attachment at the bottom of the page to register through snail mail.
General sessions are free and no advance registration is needed.
Tickets for paid events can be picked up at the registration desk in the lobby of the Burnsville Town Center during the Festival. Registration fees are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, your fee will be considered a donation to the Literary Festival.
WORKSHOPS ~ $25 per workshop per participant
Tamara Baxter - Writing Out of the Voice Box (fiction & memoir) John Hoppenthaler - Writing Outside the Self: Poetry of Engagement (poetry) Jim Clark - If My Words Did Glow (songwriting) Judy Goldman - The Fine Brushstrokes of Your Own Life (memoir & personal essay)
Saturday, September 12, 1:15 – 4:15 (Heritage Center) 7 out of 15 spots filled SATURDAY EVENING BANQUET with Ann Pancake - 7pm in the Town Center  A native of West Virginia, Pancake’s novel Strange as this Weather Has Been is set in a town polluted by mountain top removal. She is an activist and critically acclaimed writer, having received the Weatherford Award for the best work of fiction about Appalachia published in 2007 given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
Dinner will be catered by Nanny’s Kitchen with many locally grown/raised foods and vegetarian options.
Tickets are $30 per person.
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Major Sponsor
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council with funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. |
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